linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] backlight: Provide two stage registration

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Message-Id: <1253043735.30165.59.camel@dax.rpnet.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:42:15 +0100
From:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] backlight: Provide two stage registration

On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 20:27 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:18:42PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 
> > Could we not pass an optional pointer to a properties structure to
> > create the backlight with instead or find a better way to solve this?
> 
> That'd work, but it'd involve significant refactoring of all the 
> drivers - we really need to be setting max_brightness before 
> device_register() is called. I suspect it'd be an even larger delta 
> against mainline.

But the delta would result in more readable code rather than all that
error checking/handling. Can we see how ugly that diff turns out to be?

Cheers,

Richard

-- 
Richard Purdie
Intel Open Source Technology Centre

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